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Let’s start defining the basic guidelines of our EV conversion kit project. During the past months, I deeply studied the EV conversion world, and I collected a long list of useful resources. Thus, I understood I need a basic guideline document, manual or book to follow during the EV conversion kit design phase.

Hi everyone,
let me introduce myself, my name is Valerio Vannucci and I work in the technical support department for an american company providing integrated computer network performance tools. I am passionate of both technology and creating objects.
Just recently I tried driving an electric car. I spent a whole day, driving around, with a brand new Renault Zoe. And let me say, it has been amazing, so amazing to literally change my vision of life and to think about buying one for myself. As in all fairytales there’s a dark side: how much does it cost?
As I became passionate about the idea, to feed my curiosity and the desire to own one, I started driving them all, one after the other. So I first drove a Nissan Leaf, then a Tesla Model S and eventually a BMW i3. Here the escalation of the prices: you need 25.000 euros for a Zoe, 30.000 euros for a Leaf and 45.000 euros for an i3, and eventually a stratospheric price of 130.000 euros for a Model S!! Unfortunately, they are definitely out of my budget.
In the swirl of enthusiasm and test drive I didn’t give up on the idea and I ignited my creativity. I immediately started thinking about a “do it yourself kit”: what about creating an electric car myself? Wow, that’s a terrific idea, but how complicated will it be? You would need to master so many different technical expertise that an entire lifetime wouldn’t be enough, and it would turn into an epic journey. Therefore I simplified the project scope, maximizing the usage of an old car… until I had an idea… what about converting my car into an electric model? I guess this is the project I can afford doing.
That’s how the iaiaGi website was created. What is iaiaGi?
It’s an acronym standing for “Integrated Automotive Idea for Advanced Galileo ferraris finding Implementation”. Simplifying, Galileo Ferraris discovered the rotating magnetic field, a physic concept around alternate current electric motors are based on. The latter are those preferred when it comes to electric cars.
iaiaGi’s goal is not to build an electric car from scratch, rather it’s an open source project aiming to create an universal “do it yourself kit” to convert an internal combustion engine car into an electric car.
Fellows, internet surfers, makers, ehnthusiastics and techies, wherever you are!! (I know you are out there… we’re all just waiting for the right idea!) I am asking you for help to make this dream come true. There will be plenty to learn before producing the first prototype. That is why I need everyone’s help to start building the very first open source combustion-to-electric conversion kit.
Next time I will try to provide as many details as possible to this project, hoping to start the conversation and fine tuning the overall concept; I look forward to making this idea a reality widely available to anyone who wants to use a 100% eco-car and without being forced to open a mortgage.

Thanks for getting till the end in reading about me.

Talk to you soon.

The polar star

We have definitely come into the world to accomplish our own achievement:
Personal.
Unique.
Maybe small,
maybe big.
But good.
I sense it in the boring August days.
While sitting in traffic.
In the rest areas along the highway.
I feel it for myself and for all of whom touch me with their streaming existence of pain and joy.
Where have we lost one another?
Where have we sold our soul?
And yet, it is only in the tireless search of Why, it is here that we will find strength to get up and stuff ourselves with life.
And there is no one to listen to.
No one to follow but ourselves.
It’s about being honest or learning honesty again.
Someone has understood it.
“The Truth is a land without paths”, Krishnamurti wrote in his book Total Liberty, breaking up the group of which he was leader.
But how ready are we to not have paths designated by others?
Every day, pondering and acting, a little more, is enough to find our road and to accomplish what we are here for.
I dream that one day the Creator will ask me what is that I’ve done to be all I could have been.
And I dream of having a good answer.
How can I try to find my road?
When I feel my heart beating fast… yes, that is my polar star.
I hope that everyone that is searching for it, will find it.